The Science Fiction Files

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Trans-humans: Sci-fi writers have predicted that future humans will have technologically augmented bodies and electronically implanted brains. They'll be bio-processed, gene-spliced, mutated, and enhanced. In the "Sixth Finger" episode of the television series The Outer Limits (1963), David McCallum was pushed up the evolutionary path to become a super-being. More recently, in The Matrix, human beings are implanted with computer connections so they can experience a virtual world as reality. DG Predicts: We're already modifying ourselves with cosmetic surgery, hearing aids, artificial hips, pacemakers, steroids, and organ transplants. These are the bits and pieces of trans-human evolution. We just haven't seen all the synergistic combinations yet. A century from now, we could be a self-designed species.